Very good points, Dano.
And thanks Isabella for the details.
I appreciate it.
Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
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Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: creation of church books
From: Dano <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, April 24, 2014 11:25 am
To: [email protected]
The rules "do" change from time to time, Doug - but, not in this case! My only experience with the registers was in 1990, when I signed the register as a witness (testemunho), at my cousin's wedding, on a blistering hot day in July, in Sao Miguel. Yes, the record was in a "bound ledger"... As to your hypothesis, such a practice, wouldn't have been permitted, for the very reason that you, yourself, stated - ever try to sort 70 pages of legal documents? without messing up the order? In busy parishes, like the Matriz (Sao Sebastiao, Ponta Delgada), that idea would be classified as a "non-starter." The purpose of records being in bound registers is to preclude any - shall we say, "monkey business" with said documents. After all, they are "legal documents," even if they are kept by the church...--
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On Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:19:51 AM UTC-4, Doug da Rocha Holmes wrote:Here's something I've always wondered about and it would be very interesting if anyone knew the answer.When a baptism, marriage or death record was newly created, say back in 1806 (just a random year), was the page already bound in a volume?I think the answer is no. I imagine the priest had a stack of blank papers cut to the proper size that he pulled out and wrote up the record. Once enough of them were enough to make a volume, they had a priest bind the pages into a book.It would mean that there might be 5 to 70 years, depending on the size of the parish, that the pages stayed unbound. A little village like Sao Joao, Pico, had one volume of baptisms starting in 1807 and ending in 1827. That's 20 years of loose leafs until they got bound.Sometimes the priest's ink bottle got knocked over onto the paper and we have a giant black spot still there today.Anyway, just curious about these things I pour over daily.Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
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